Time.com creates epic time-lapse of the Earth with Google and NASA

Time.com's global time-lapse videos

Time.com

An interface on time.com show the state of Florida in 2007. The interactive feature allows people to see a time-lapse video of satellite images ranging from 1984 to present day. The sequences show the changes in urban growth and environmental changes throughout the world.

An interface on time.com show the state of Florida in 2007. The interactive feature allows people to see a time-lapse video of satellite images ranging from 1984 to present day. The sequences show the changes in urban growth and environmental changes throughout the world. (Time.com)

Tom BurtonOrlando Sentinel

Time magazine has partnered with Google and NASA’s Landsat to create a first-ever interactive feature on the internet that allows you to watch almost 30 years of urban and environmental changes across the Earth. Processing thousands of satellite photos from over the years with very advanced computer systems, they have created animations that show cities that come from nowhere and glaciers that disappear into nothing.

Dubai, Las Vegas and the Amazon are featured on the site, but you can also search for a location just like on Google Maps. Florida is very interesting to watch as the state population grows since 1984. Try typing in “Leesburg, Florida” and then watch the area just to the north as The Villages rises from vast pastureland into a retirement community of more than 100,000.